C.240 | |
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Role | Touring |
Manufacturer | Caudron |
Designer | Paul Deville |
First flight | 1931 |
Produced | 1931 |
Number built | 1 |
The Caudron C.240 was a four-seat touring aircraft produced in France in 1931. It was a single-engined, low-wing, cantilever monoplane constructed using wood and metal. It had fixed, conventional landing gear. [1]
It was presented for official tests at the STAé but it did not respond well to control input and did not receive its Certificate of Airworthiness. [1] Caudron were unable to find customers so further development was abandoned.
Data from [2]
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